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http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-leftovers-tom-perrotta-on-taking-kevin-to-the-other-side-and-if-there-will-be-a-season-3-20151128
In particular these questions:
Another talking point that is constantly discussed and will be discussed when it comes to "The Leftovers" is that line between questions that need to be resolved and questions that don't. And that line seems pretty clear to me. I don't know exactly how to talk about it or how I could find it — which is why I'm asking you — but the departure and what happened there is clearly a question that's not going to be answered. But when it comes to Kevin's sanity it felt pertinent enough that I expected to learn something final about that — like what we got in Episode 8. How do you determine what answers are the answers that need to be provided, versus what questions you're more comfortable leaving open-ended?
If I could tell you the one thing that surprised me the most last year was how angry some people got when we said, "Look, the cause of the Departure will never be answered." Either the show is actually about living with this unknown mystery — which to me it is anyway, it's just to me we kind of covered it with yellow highlighter — but I was surprised that people were angry. And one of the things that's been fun this year is we have a few goofy answers, where I guess if this were more of a genre show, the artifact that Kevin has to find would be the solution to the mystery. So that's been fun. But I would say Kevin's sanity is not a question to be answered. It's a thing. It's a process that he lives with, and I think the question for the show is, again, the question of framework. If Kevin lived in Laurie's rational, therapeutic world, he's insane — there's no question about it. She doesn't even ask the question of, "Kevin, are you possibly insane?" She just goes, "You're a very sick man." Because in that framework, Kevin is a very sick man. But if you suddenly say, "No. Kevin has the power to move into realms that are closed off to other people. someone like maybe his father." If you accepted that there is a reasonable way to talk about his experience, then it may not be the most useful thing to say Kevin is insane.
And kind of connected to that, one of the questions that I was very curious about relates to two weeks ago when Nora actually left Kevin. He woke up and she was gone. That was one of the things that really caught me off guard. It didn't seem like something she would necessarily do just because of what he said. And obviously I don't want anything spoiled for the final episodes, but are we going to explore more of her rationale behind leaving him?
You should just keep watching. I think one of the things with "The Leftovers" is that often we get around to answering questions . Like in this case in the question of Episode 8, we answered the question of "Is Kevin dead?" very quickly. And sometimes there's a big lag between when a question gets posed and when a question gets answered. For instance, you see Erica unearth that box in Episode 1 and it's not til Episode 6 that you find out what that was all about. So I think that we're very aware that there's certain questions that are hanging out there and will sort of will hopefully be answered in time.
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